Compensatory dynamics and the stability of phytoplankton biomass during four decades of eutrophication and oligotrophication

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 81-89

  Jochimsen, Marc C ^a   Kümmerlin, Reiner ^b   Straile, Dietmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b Institut für Seenforschung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomass compensation; Climate warming; Community dynamics; Functional diversity; Nonlinear response; Regime shift; Resilience; Reversibility of anthropogenic change; Trophic state

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPENSATION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUTROPHICATION; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPHIC STATUS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; EUROPE; EUTROPHICATION; LAKE; PHYTOPLANKTON;

BIOMASS; EUROPE; EUTROPHICATION; LAKES; PHYTOPLANKTON;

EID: 84870883354     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12018     Document Type: Article

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